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ArticleHealth research policy and systems2019

Out of sync: a Shared Mental Models perspective on policy implementation in healthcare.

Jenna M Evans, Karen S Palmer, Adalsteinn D Brown, Husayn Marani, Kirstie K Russell, Danielle Martin, Noah M Ivers

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Jenna M EvansDeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. jenna.evans@mcmaster.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3104-9889
Karen S PalmerWomen's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Adalsteinn D BrownInstitute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Husayn MaraniInstitute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Kirstie K RussellWomen's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Danielle MartinInstitute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Noah M IversWomen's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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CIHR N/AOntario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care N/A
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The impact of policy ambiguity on implementation is a perennial concern in policy circles. The degree of ambiguity of policy goals and the means to achieve them influences the likelihood that a policy will be uniformly understood and implemented across implementation sites. We argue that the application of institutional and organisational theories to policy implementation must be supplemented by a socio-cognitive lens in which stakeholders' interpretations of policy are investigated and compared. We borrow the concept of 'Shared Mental Models' from the literature on industrial psychology to examine the microprocesses of policy implementation. Drawing from interviews with 45 key informants involved in the implementation of a hospital funding reform, known as Quality-Based Procedures in Ontario, Canada, we identify divergent mental models and explain how these divergences may have affected implementation and change management. We close with considerations for future research and practice.

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Health PolicyModels, PsychologicalPolicy MakingHealth Care ReformHumansInterviews as TopicOntarioQualitative Researchactivity-based fundingchange managementframeshealth reformpolicy implementationshared mental models

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PMID31775772
PMCPMC6882239

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